#out

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question. ↗

— Arthur Guiterman

#friends #greeting #how #indigestion #question

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#artists #deeply #engaging #entire #everything

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#aids #almost #been #both #decades

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#cannot #free #functions #govern #himself

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#anyone #book #books #ceremony #contains

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#i #i came #just #like #lot

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#happening #i #lately #like #melody

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now. ↗

— David Guetta

#albums #because #i #mix #music

Silence is argument carried out by other means. ↗

— Che Guevara

#carried #means #other #out #silence